Category: Photography


PICTURE POST #5 : WHEN PUSH COMES TO SHOVE

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October 7, 2013
Putting words to images.

I took this picture in Perugia, Italy.

I don’t know who the sculptor is but I can all too easily relate to the idea behind it.

To make progress with any undertaking there needs to be co-operation and communication. When this is absent you can never be sure who’s supposed to be pushing and who should be pulling. The end result is stagnation.

I’ve experienced this many times both in and out of my workplace.

Feelings of being stuck are enemies of creativity and wellbeing. Sometimes all it takes is the realisation that all the time you’ve been pushing hard when you should be pulling ( or vice versa).

And sometimes you just need to let go!

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PICTURE POST # 4 : ONLY IN ENGLAND

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September 24, 2013

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Media Space is a new photography and art gallery on the second floor of the Science Museum in London.  It is a collaboration between the Science Museum and the National Media Museum in Bradford, home of the National Photography Collection.

The inaugural exhibition is Only in England with photographs by Martin Parr and the late Tony Ray-Jones.

The above picture – Beachy Head boat trip –  was taken by Ray-Jones in 1967 and shows that he had a keen eye for the commonplace eccentricities of the English.

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PICTURE POST #2 : BELOVED DEATH

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September 20, 2013
Putting Words to images

Beloved

This is a ghostly image, a sepia print as though faded by time. Yet the tightly cropped portrait of a dead woman is not from the distant past. It is one of a series of sobering pictures by Sandra Vitaljic of Croatia in a collection entitled Beloved. Her subjects were all victims of crimes of passion.

In the gallery space where it was displayed as part of the Savignano Immagini Festival you see the photograph in a plastic cube like it was part of a specimen for a post-mortem. It was the only picture where you could immediately identify the subject as female. It was surrounded by other shots of damaged body parts conserved after dissection.

The analytical nature of this presentation makes the photo more chilling. The photographer seems to making a spectacle of this gruesome image in a way I found discomforting. I do not know this victim or what precisely led to her violent end but somehow the picture makes me an unwilling participant in her story.

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PICTURE POST #1 : AN EMPTY ROOM

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September 19, 2013
First in a series putting Words to images.

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This is a photograph I saw as part of a small exhibition called The Space I Feel at this year’s Savignano Immagini Festival.

Superficially, the image is not so fascinating yet the sense of balance indicates it is not a random shot.

Some care has gone into the composition but why was it taken?

It is plainly not the kind of picture an estate agent would use; not only is it in black and white but also it gives no clue as to how big the room is or how the space could be used. Continue reading →

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THE BOTTLE AUDITORIUM

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September 16, 2013

I loved this ingenious ‘interactive ethic monument’ or   ‘bottle auditorium’ which was installed for this year’s Savignano Immagini festival.

In keeping with the festival theme ‘species of space’, it was created by Giulio Accettulli, Claudio Ballestracci and Manolo Benvenuti.

Recorded string music, by Marco Mantovani, is heard only when visitors place their hands under the taps to stop the flow of water.

Each tap is a different channel of the composition so you can create your own mixes. In this way,  light, water, music and people combine in a temporary space where the simplicity of the idea and the thrill of discovery combine perfectly.

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